Daniel Byman

Daniel Byman "is Associate Professor and Director of the Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds a joint appointment with the Georgetown Department of Government, and he is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

"Dr. Byman has served as a Professional Staff Member with both the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (“The 9-11 Commission”) and the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. He has also worked as the Research Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation and as an analyst of the Middle East for the U.S. intelligence community. Dr. Byman has written widely on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, and the Middle East.  His latest book is Deadly Connections:  States that Sponsor Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2005).  He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."